Allegany County Maryland--History

Trimble-Peck; Peck-Trimble either way, it still works

February 6, 2003

CUMBERLAND

Steve Trimble graduated from Fort Hill High School in 1976 where he played football, basketball, and ran track. He won the 1975 State Championship in the High Hurdles and still holds the school varsity records in the High Hurdles and Triple-Jump.

Peck to receive Lefty Grove Award
January 26, 2003

Ty Johnson was born in Cumberland, Maryland and graduated from Fort Hill High School in 2015. During his Junior and Senior years at Fort Hill Johnson led the “Sentinels” to back to back Maryland 1A State Football Championships during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Johnson was a Maryland High School Consensus All-State selection in 2014 and was the No. 1 ranked running back in Maryland in his class.

This is Eugene Frazier, as he appeared as a member of the Fort Hill High School football squad in a photograph dated November 7, 1967.

Eugene went on to graduate from Fort Hill in 1970. Several years later Eugene, along with others, helped to re-organize the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Though they did not compete against schools on the local level, the Carver School Six-Man Football Team did play other teams throughout the region and, won several championships.

The following is from the Cumberland News and Prime Time: A History of Allegany County During the 1950s:

Allegany Sports Hall of Fame and Babst Awards

The Charles E. Babst Award is given to any male student-athlete at Allegany High School regardless of grade and is awarded on the basis of Athletic Ability, Scholastic Standing, Leadership, Loyalty, and Sportsmanship.

Eight African-Americans have won this award. They are:

Kenneth Davis - 1962
Danny Darr - 1965
George Meade - 1982
Christopher D. Stewart - 1984
Johnnie Fields - 1991
Dennys Salas - 1994
P.J. Yates - 1995
Ramnik Gates - 1998

"Baldy" Powell graduated from Allegany High School in 1960. He is the first African American to play on the Allegany football team. Powell was selected to the 1958 All-City team as a Back, and was inducted into the Allegany High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. The following article, written by the late J. Suter Kegg, Sports Editor Emeritus of the Cumberland Sunday Times-News, appeared in the Sunday newspaper on December 13, 1998:


"Baldy" Powell again makes Allegany High history

CITY BRIEFS

A truck load of paper collected by William Shepard for delivery today to Carver High School, Frederick street, as a donation to help purchase uniforms for a colored Boy Scout troop, had to be disposed of at a dump because no one will buy paper in the present glutted market.

The Cumberland Evening Times, Friday, June 12, 1942

COLORED HOUSING PROJECT GETS ROOF